You are one of the potential investors in a business . Explain how you would go about evaluating the proposed investment. Use at least three different methods of evaluating investments. Describe the three different methods, and explain which one of these methods used is the best for this particular decision. Motivate your answer. Describe any potential negative issues of the chosen method which you should be aware of.

Answer must be between 1500-2000 word counts

A country has a population if 10,000 of this population 1,000 are below the age of 16, 2000 have given up looking for work, 700 are unemployed but but looking for work, 2500 work part time and the remaining are unemployed.

A. What is the unemployment rate?

B. What is the labor participation rate?

C. What is the adult population?

D. Suppose workers the workers who had given up looking for work decide to start working again, what is the new unemployment rate?

Labor use per unit for two products shown below for countries A and B, along with units of each product being produced. Can the two countries benefit from the trade? Who has the competitive advantage with regard to which?

Country A

unit labor shoes 100. computers 500

units produced shoes 1000 computers 10

Country B unit labor shoes 50 computers 200 unit produced shoes 2000 and computers 10

Contrail Air, Inc. is trying to determine its cost of debt. The company has an outstanding debt issue with 19 years to maturity that is quoted at 98.00% percent of face value. The issue makes semiannual payments and has a coupon rate of 9.00% percent. What is the pretax cost of debt?

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the average income tax refund for the 2011 tax year was $2,913. Assume the refund per person follows the normal probability distribution with a standard deviation of $950. a. What is the probability that a randomly selected tax return refund from the 2011 tax year will be 1. more than $ 2000 2. between $1,600 and $2,500? 3. between $3,200 and $4,000? b. Confirm the answers to part a using Excel or PH Stat.

In the following Table you are given information on Real GDP and Nominal GDP.

Compute the percentage change in Nominal GDP from 1970 to 1980 (15 points) and the percentage change in Real GDP (15 points) from 1970 to 1980.

Where do you attribute the difference between the two percentage changes?

Cavu Air Inc., issued 15 Year bonds 2 years ago at a coupon rate of 7.30% percent. The bonds make semi annual payments. If these bonds currently sell for 103 percent of par value, what is the YTM? Settlement date 1/1/2000 Maturity date 1/1/2013 Annual coupon rate 7.30% Coupons per year 2 Face value (% of par) 100 Bond price (% of par) 103

Now assume you have a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15 that is composed of 2000 participants. Please answer the following questions,

what is the probability of the following? (please with steps)

a. A score being between 100 and 115

b. A score greater than 130

c. A score less than 70

d. A score either greater than 130 or less than 70

e. A score either greater the 100 or less than 85

Daneen has borrowed $6000 from her bank to buy a new machine for her business. She has promised to make payments of $2000 after two years, $2500 after three years, and a final payment after five years. What is the size of the last payment, if interest is 8% compounded semiannually? show caculation by BAII plus CAlculator.You are encouraged to draw the timelines for yourself to help you with setting up the logic of how to solve the problem.

3. A political candidate wants to estimate the mean income in her district. If the standard deviation for incomes is known to be $10,000, how large a sample must she take if she wishes to be 99% certain that her estimate is within $2000 of the true mean?

4. A company that manufactures golf clubs wants to estimate the proportion of golfers who are left-handed. How large a sample must they take if they want to be 90% certain that their estimate is within 6% of the true proportion?